Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

The paper landed on the table, but the news was stapled to his chest. A tattoo.

She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.